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Biography
- Author:Zuckoff, MitchellSummary:
- Author:McCourt, FrankSummary:
Frank McCourt’s glorious childhood memoir, Angela’s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of...
- Author:Starita, JoeSummary:
In 1877, Ponca Indians were forcibly relocated from Nebraska to Oklahoma. "I Am a Man" chronicles what happened when Standing Bear began a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his son to their traditional burial ground...
- Author:CROUCH, MichaelSummary:
The colourful life story of T.A.G. Hungerford, the last grand old man of Australian literature. The author of four major novels, a short-story writer par excellence and a poet, Hungerford has also been a soldier and traveller.
- Author:DENNISON, MatthewSummary:
Princess Beatrice was the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father died when she was only four. His death overshadowed the remainder of the Queen's life. The Queen insisted that her youngest and most...
- Author:STEPHENS, TonySummary:
Sir William Deane was Governor-General during a time of great change in this country-political, economic and social. He was a unifying force throughout; and even those who may have disagreed with some of his views recognised that he...
- Author:Kerkhoff, BlairSummary:
Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen overcame the argument of James Naismith, inventor of the game, that basketball didn't need a coach. Allen served (for a while under Naismith) at the University of Kansas as coach from 1907 to 1909 and from 1919...
- Author:STATHAM-DREW, PamelaSummary:
Man of action, naval officer, able administrator, skilled diplomat - James Stirling's distinguished and multi-faceted career carried him to the four corners of the nineteenth century world.
- Author:HUNTER, GregSummary:
A powerfully honest insight into the world of this amazing swimmer.
- Author:Marlena de BlasiSummary:
On a forgotten patch of earth where Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio collide, Marlena de Blasi settles with her Venetian husband, Fernando, in search of a new life. The routines they establish are not that different from those of villagers...
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